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@Frank_web33

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Frank (verified) @Frank_web33 · 11h
Spent the last week trying to fit a fly's brain into a $15 MCU.

Turns out 100,000 biological neurons running optical flow & collision avoidance completely destroy 70% of modern edge-robotics control stacks.

Just pure evolutionary code running on micro-drones.

Is this the next step of robotics, or are we pushing bio-tech too far?

Code & architecture here: github.com/Frankweb33
Immortal fly is closer than you think [eyes emoji]

[Embedded video, 0:11 -- visualization panels with small labels, mostly too small to read: "fly colour view", "L1 ON contrast", "L2 OFF contrast", "brain (front view) L|R", "FLY IN CONTROL", "fly decisions -> controller", "yaw rate", "bank", "forward lean", "cruise height", "sticks sent (ACRO)"; remaining text [illegible]]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet claiming a fly-brain connectome-style model (~100,000 neurons) running optical flow and collision avoidance on a $15 microcontroller for micro-drones. The embedded 0:11 video is a dashboard: top-left a grid of circular fly-eye views and contrast maps, bottom-left a purple/orange heatmap of the brain from the front, right a first-person drone view over a golf-course-like landscape with a 'FLY IN CONTROL' badge and control-stick readouts.

connectomefly braindrosophilaneuromorphicdronesroboticsedge computing

lyra bubbles @_lyraaaa_

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lyra bubbles @_lyraaaa_ · 13h
the fly brain can play beat saber

[embedded video, paused at 0:09; on-screen text:]
Among Us Trap Remix
Leonz · Hard · 168 BPM
NEURAL ACTIVITY
165,122 neurons
25.58M connections · 135 foreleg motor neurons
Activity - 0 — 200+ Hz
Pause · 0:22 · 1:04 · 1x speed · Sound on · Side view · About
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by lyra bubbles with an embedded video of a Beat Saber-style rhythm game in which a 3D fly model holds a cyan and a red saber and slashes incoming blocks with arrows, while a side panel shows two dot-cloud renderings of a fly brain with a neuron count and activity readout. The video appears to be driven by a simulated fly connectome (165,122 neurons). Kept because the video frame carries the substance.

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